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Bamboo pole bound with bamboo grass, covered with dark pigment, and divided by three rings of woven bamboo grass and dark feathers. The wooden stop forms a crocodile merging into a crested bird. Both have cowrie eyes; the bird also has a row of fibre tassels hanging from the back and a cheek mound with feathers, shells, and a fibre loop.
Flute formed by a bamboo tube, split its whole length, held together with rings and lashings of bark and with a hole in the side near the stop. The wooden stop has a kneeling woman, with a bird on top of her head, and a human head upside down behind her legs with black cassowary feathers adorning it. Cowrie shells are inlaid into the eyes, the bird's neck, and the human foreheads. There is hair on the human heads and another fringe of cassowary feathers at the open end.
Headdress composed of a piece of tapa cloth with rounded corners and decorated with bands of zigzag in red ochre. Woven and wound string with a linear pattern in light grey Job's Tears seeds and segments of black bamboo. The exposed string is rubbed with red, black and yellow pigment (?).
A bark cloth backed beaded panel. The beads are grey and polished and woven with plant fibre string in rows. There is a cross-pattern of black electrical wire pieces. The edges are dyed red, and the top is alternately dyed red, then has grey beads and yellow dye in vertical rows.
Spoon cut from a single, narrow piece of bamboo; one end is bent and rounded to create the spoon's bowl.
Whisk made from one piece of bamboo. Lower segment is handle. Upper part is cut into fine strands which are separately tied, forming an inner grouping and an outer section. Outer section is splayed outwards with ends curved inwards. Handle has a deep split.
A ladle with a handle that has a relief carving of six bird-like heads, all of which have large curved noses. The bowl is a half coconut shell. The bowl is tied to the handle with cane fibres through four holes forming two criss-cross patterns on the back. The end of the handle has four rings and a knob.
A ladle with a garamut handle (part a) that has a relief carving of six bird-like heads, all of which have large curved noses. The bowl (part b) is a half coconut shell and is tied to the handle with cane fibres through four holes forming two criss-cross patterns on the back. The end of the handle has one ring, and a knob. The handle is loose.
Paper umbrella. Bamboo ribs; white stenciled floral design over faded purple oiled paper; black painted band holds ribs to shaft; metal ferrule has green silk cord tied through it; round black knob at end of shaft has metal band at neck.
Miniature carrying frame made from bamboo tied together with cane. Two long pieces of bamboo on the sides. Centre has panel of wicker work cane. Back has horizontal bamboo sticks tied with cane as does the front. Two sticks hang from each end on rounded cane structures.